Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it… — Henry Martyn Copy Share
I am immortal until God's work for me to do is done. The Lord reigns. — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
The impious man, who sells his country's freedom Makes all the guilt of tyranny his own. His are her slaughters, her oppressions his; Just… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister - a near relation, a more affectionate… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
I have rightfully no other business each day but to do God's work as a servant, constantly regarding His pleasure. May I have grace… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep… — Henry Martyn Copy Share
My soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God. — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
It has always happened hitherto that whenever I have begun to feel an attachment to places, persons, or things, of a merely temporary nature,… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become. — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
